Stop punching yourself in the face!

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Software teams pick shiny tools and then pay for them: storing raw files in RavenDB cost vs S3; adopting an abandoned library like Agatha (no maintainer) vs Mediator; adding EventStore without training so one person becomes a bottleneck; misusing Entity Framework (first DbContext hit, N+1 queries, missing indexes, selecting wide rows); over-engineering with microservices for a simple CRUD app; and keeping legacy code alongside new frameworks instead of hollowing out the tree trunk — choose technical fit, check maintenance risk, train the team, and budget migration.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:09Technical fit
3. 18:23The Entity Framework Story
4. 23:28The Big Old Project Story

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